Posts Tagged: Beer Art, Language and Writing
The Pub Game Project: Name This Painting Of Drunken Flems
Posted by on Monday, October 8, 2007 in - 4 comments
As a lad, in a state of utter unknowingness, I went to Belgium and drank Jupiler and Guinness. Again, for that I am truly sorry. I also went to the National Gallery and had a look at the Bosches and the Breugels before Jupiler outlets opened. • But for the life of me I can't figure out the name …
Stonch, Ron, Garrett And A Question Of Evidence
Posted by on Saturday, October 6, 2007 in - 5 comments
I have a confession. I have little or no interest in beer styles whatsoever. All I care about is that a particular beer tastes good, has interestingly depths, that the layers of depth contain clues to both its ingredients and history, that it is consistently made, is tweekable - and can be … read more »
Will I Spend Christmas In Baltimore?
Posted by on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 in - 7 comments
Can it be? I never thought there was a chance I would spend some of my Christmas holidays In Baltimore but I got this email yesterday: • “Dear Contributors: • I'm delighted to tell you that our publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, will be hosting a launch party for Beer and Philosophy and the companion …
Sad News Of Michael Jackson's Passing
Posted by on Thursday, August 30, 2007 in - 6 comments
Sad news from Stan who is reporting the passing of Michael Jackson, the English beer writer who taught so much to so many of we beer geeks. Tonight, in his memory, you might raise a very good glass of one of the many somethings his writings illuminated for you. • Lew's recollections are quite …
A Check For A Short Beer
Posted by on Sunday, July 29, 2007 in - 7 comments
As you know, we get emails around here with all sorts of inquiries about this and that. Recently someone suggested that the world would be better if I posted his opinion piece on something. No thanks. Plenty of days, mixed in with the Nigerian scams there are offers to promote someone else's web …
Respect Your Hefeweizen
Posted by on Monday, June 18, 2007 in - 9 comments
Like Stonch, I have been adding to my relationship with beer through running a nano-brewery in the kitchen. While I have no beer cam (yet), it's great fun as brewing gets you close to the ingredients and give you some insights into what craft brewers are doing and doing for you. • So I ordered a …
Beer Blog Poetry Contest Winners
Posted by on Sunday, April 15, 2007 in - leave a comment
I sat down to have a proper read of these entries and was quite surprised by a couple of things. First, you did your work. While some of the entries are clearly by people who write poems more than others, the effort was clearly there. Second - and perhaps more interesting - was the thematic …
Good Beer Blog Poetry Entries And 24 Hours To Comment
Posted by on Thursday, April 12, 2007 in - leave a comment
Ok, now it is the readers turn. Here are the entries for the beer blog contest. Let me know what you thing: • Haiku by "mallace" - April 12. He came up with the idea for the poetry contest in the first place. He also won a prize in the last contest."Beer Run - An Epic Tale" by Captain Hops - 12 …
Another Day, Another Opportunity To Write A Beer Poem
Posted by on Monday, April 9, 2007 in - 2 comments
Yes, I do go on...poems, poems, poems. But I really need to have these tickets for free beer at TAP NY 2007 in the hands of those who will use them to drink free beer. Is that so wrong? Listen. I am the one around here who put in four good years of my life to get a BA in English Literature and I …
Richard Boston, 67, Beer Writer And Eccentric
Posted by on Sunday, December 31, 2006 in - leave a comment
I have just read that Richard Boston, one of the founders of the great river of interest in good beer (upon which this small blog plays the role of tiny canoe) passed away a few days before Christmas: • “Richard Boston, founder of one of Britain's first environmental magazines and a proponent of …
